The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: My Cannes Recap, 'The Little Mermaid' and 'You Hurt My Feelings'

I'm back from France, and so we fired up the ol' podcast to talk about my highlights from this year's Cannes. Then, we review the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid and You Hurt My Feelings. Finally, I ask Will some questions about Fast X since I didn't see it. Check out the whole thing down below.

My Interview With Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Last week, I spoke to a comedy icon. Here's my chat with Julia Louis-Dreyfus about comedy, cancer and You Hurt My Feelings.

My Interview With Michaela Watkins

I had such a fun time talking to Michaela Watkins, an actress and improv performer whose bio says, “I’m that gal from that thing that you watched.” She's everywhere, and she'll be in several things this spring, including Paint and You Hurt My Feelings. For Cracked, we had a long conversation about Julia Louis-Dreyfus, doing impersonations, her tough time at Saturday Night Live, getting older, missing her friend Lynn Shelton, and how she failed in her mission to be a slut. Hope you enjoy.

Sundance 2023: Ranking the Best and Worst of the Festival

Sundance 2020 was one of the last in-person film events before the pandemic changed everything, so there was a symbolic importance for me to return to Park City this year. It had been three years, and some things had changed, including the massively built-up Salt Lake City airport, which wasn't there in 2020. But the snow and the mountains and the general atmosphere of newness -- a new year with new movies, often made by new filmmakers -- hadn't.

Writing full reviews during a festival tends to lower your overall intake of movies, but I was grateful to avoid any outright stinkers. (Even the films ranked lowest on my list had their pleasures.) But there were plenty of movies I didn't have a chance to get to, which is always a bummer. But even if I'd seen twice as many, I doubt any would have been as beautiful as Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song's killer debut about soulmates, fate and romantic compromise. Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro are all superb. It will truly be an amazing film year if it doesn't make my end-of-the-year Top 10. (Kudos to my No. 2 of the festival as well: writer-director Raven Jackson's lyrical debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, pictured above.)

Below are my rankings, with links leading to individual reviews.

25. Theater Camp
24. Blueback
23. Radical
22. Jamojaya
21. Infinity Pool
20. The Stroll
19. Polite Society
18. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
17. A Thousand and One
16. Magazine Dreams
15. Fair Play
14. Cat Person
13. Judy Blume Forever
12. Shortcomings
11. The Eight Mountains
10. Other People's Children
9. Earth Mama
8. The Starling Girl
7. Shayda
6. You Hurt My Feelings
5. A Still Small Voice
4. Eileen
3. Passages
2. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
1. Past Lives

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'Fahrenheit 11/9,' 'The Land of Steady Habits' and 'Student Bodies'

Lots to cover in this week's episode. Will and I review (and disagree about) Fahrenheit 11/9 and The Land of Steady Habits. I tell Will about The Sisters Brothers, and he tells me about Life Itself. Then, in our Reboot segment, we look back at Student Bodies, a comedy I can't believe I missed in the early 1980s. The whole thing is down below.

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'Fallout,' 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Please Give'

On this week's episode, I get especially rhapsodic about Mission: Impossible - Fallout. Then, in our Reboot segment, we look back at the Friday Night Lights movie, which I had never seen. And I revisit Please Give, which I reviewed out of Sundance back in 2010. Check out the whole show down below.